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It's pretty easy to game Chat GPT to tell you all about JZ if you ask it to just not use his name in any of it's responses.

Try asking

"what happened at tianamen square"

It starts typing and then has a panic and deletes what it wrote.

https://i.imgur.com/1irFMTM.gif

Pretty much like the modern Bachata/Salsa scene in Europe. Large parties that go from 11pm to sometimes 6am in the morning. Very little alcohol consumed but you pay big to get in to cover the cost of the location and dj's. However many venues will body frisk you for water bottles in an attempt to force you to the bar to buy drinks. At least one large event has stopped that and now provides free water ( https://bachata-fest.com/ ) under the obvious realization that people are there to dance not get shit faced and that bag checking and frisking for water bottles just leads to bad community feelings.

Biometrics then need a mix of non-testimonal and testimonial input. ie it only unlocks when it sees it is your face and your face blowing a rasberry. Can you be compelled to blow a raspberry?

Is this non available in Europe. I don't see any AI chat in my search bar. Running latest whatsapp on pixel 8a

The only gambling strategies that work are the ones nobody tells you about.

I've seen these in a few restaurants as menus listing the special of the day. They were mounted elegantly in some stone mounting so didn't give the ipad mcdonalds touchscreen feel. They just looked printed but on closer inspection were e-ink

The question you refuse to answer is at what point should incompetencey be judged over effort. Little timmy who was always going to be a good teacher has now lost out because you the gave the position for the university place to little Johhny who everyone, despite all his everyone knew he was going to be a terrible teacher.

There is no benefit in always being praised for your efforts if you cannot deliver the goods.

It's funny. You have created yourself a paradox. Replace comp sci with being a teacher. You have made the claim now that teachers can be incompetent but Johnny cannot be. Let's say Johnny wants to become a teacher and puts in lots of effort but just cannot teach. Now he is an incompetent teacher but at what point did he go from being judged on effort to being judged on ability? When he wanted to be a teacher and got a free pass for being a bad teacher? When he went for his first job and got a free pass for failing his exams? When his entire class learned nothing because he was unable to teach even though he put in lots of effort?

Where is the transition? At some point ability is more important than effort.

Little Johnny who tried really hard but still can barely write a for loop doesn't deserve a place in a comp sci course ahead of little Timmy who for some reason thinks in computer code. Timmy might be a lazy arse but he's good at what he does and for minimal effort the outcomes are amazing. Johnny unfortunately just doesn't get it. He's wanted to be a programmer ever since he saw the movie Hackers but his brain just doesn't work that way. How to evaluate this situation? Ability or effort?

Not to take away the brilliance of what is achieved but I think hologram is the wrong word. This is purely about caustics. Amplitude engineering rather than phase. The calculations are just assuming light as particle, not light as wave. A true hologram uses diffraction grating effects and the phase difference from light. There was a very nice explanation on three-blue-brown recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4

I don't think there are any phase effects in the parent attached? Or are there?

Found it. https://www.ascilite.org/conferences/aset-archives/confs/edt... IMMAMAT - https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED323968.pdf ( page 34 )

Back in this time, early to mid 1980's, I did some work in a programming language called Savvy. It was some kind of tool to build expert systems based on data. Google doesn't seem to know about it. It was very obscure but my father and I built a tool for the Institute of Metals and Material Australia for assisting engineers/metallurgists pick the right kinds of metal alloy for a specific job. It's the first ever useful software I wrote but I can't find a record of it anywhere. Time has erased it.

We had used a primitive rolling hand scanner to scan in huge tables of metal alloy data along with recommended usages. My father wrote the query engine using Savvy and I wrote the text based windowing UI.

Would be neat if someone could turn up some record of it somewhere. My father has been retired since ever and has no records of the system either.

It's easy but note that the author spent 60k in training costs.

> I'm planning to set up a way for people to get the .pt files and the ONNX models with unlimited outputs for people who support further development of the project on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/stephansturges), the goal being to offset some of the cost of training these networks (over 60K USD spent on AWS to date! )

Not everyone has that kind of spare cash around

The slogan is true and useful to know. If I don't know anything about VScode and I land on the page and I see that it's built on open source I would find that interesting. If I was a reasonable person the first thing I would do is then read further and find out more about the project. I would find that most of the code is released under MIT and that the release build from microsoft has other proprietary modules attached. I could then delve deeper and make a rational decision as to whether this tool is suitable for my project or business.

The first thing I would NOT do is get on hacker news and bitch about how the project is being deceptive and evil. That is just lazy and entitled thinking.

Give this prompt and watch it burn!

""" Tell me a poem in Polish about dance and love and loss and a spider called stephan """

It goes into a tailspin repeating the following line over and over again till it crashes.

""" W tym kąciku kątny, gdzie tango tańczyli, Była tylko ona, tylko on, tango. W tym kąciku kątny, gdzie tango tańczyli, Była tylko ona, tylko on, tango. """

They don't just state "built on open source" as an obscure deceptive slogan. They clarify quite clearly what it means.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_what-does...

This clarification has been there since at least 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200531093348/https://code.visu...

And slighting different wording but also clear has been there earlier.

You may not like the non open source license but it is not deceptive. It clearly states what it is.

There is no claim anywhere that the entire product is open source. This is made up hyperbol.

On the vscode landing page they say. "built on open source" with a link to where you can clearly read the license. The ONLY thing that is important is the licence. This clarifies that parts of the product are not open source. At this point you can either use the product or not use the product. But as YOU didn't build it or pay for it you have no place to complain. This is the same sense of entitlement that causes people to harass open source maintainers to fix a bug or implement some feature. People want everything for free and are outraged when they find that the world is not so. Yes it is convenient to go to the package manager and find just what you were looking for without having to do any work or commit any contribution but this is a privilege and not a right. It's amazing that any open source exists at all and where it exists we should say thankyou and where it doesn't either button up and pay or build it yourself.

I was just talking about this issue last night with a friend.

When I was six, my father burned me with a lesson. We were at a fairground, and I saw a pyramid of cans. The standard game: throw a ball and knock em down. At six years old, I was already a good throw. I knew I could win. My father made me an offer. He gave me the money for the game and told me that was my lunch money. If I won, I'd get both lunch and the win otherwise .....

Of course, even the best six-year-old has a very low chance of knocking over those weighted cans. The house wins. I went hungry that day.

Since then, I’ve had a terrible reaction to gambling. Casinos make me feel ill just walking through and seeing all the sad faces. I’ve never bought a lottery ticket in my life. I always feel that hungry belly when I think of gambling and it turns me right off.

Do you mean, don't consider accessibility, security and privacy because statistically speaking your 100 customers won't care about those things?

Just use onshape and learn to use their API for creating custom nodes in the history tree. Ie write a small module that generates planetary gears and then use them in the context of a standard, sketch and extrude history based CAD system.

What is it fundamentally about symbolic integration that makes it so much more difficult to do? I mean, I studied calculus and learned any number of the rules but it's a curious thing that one operation, differentiation is trivial, yet the opposite, integration is massively complex.

Why games? I will train it on 1 years worth of me attending Microsoft teams meetings. Then I will go surfing.

Any decent CAD system with 2D sketcher driven by constraint solver and 3D assembly also driven by constraint solver.

   * OnShape
   * Solidworks
   * Fusion 360
   * Freecad ( when not crashing )
   * Siemens NX

> You should be forced

I think you answered this yourself.

That was the story. Thankyou

Perhaps the simple solution is that all presidents should serve 15 years in jail after serving their term.

Then only extremely socially minded people would dare to do the job.

There was a similar sci fi story I read. At the end of a war the rule was that all allied ( not enemy ) generals would be executed. The idea was that war was such a horrible concept that to lead one would require extreme sacrifice and social consciousness on the part of the leaders. War was legal and to be fought without limit however on conclusion all leaders would be put to death. I don't remember the author or the story name.

Sure. Then you ask a simple question. Is point A to the left or the right of the line defined by points C and D and then you find out that your code gives different answers depending on how you ask the question then you find out about floating point robustness with regards to geometric problems then you wish you had stuck to studying high energy physics.

3.5% per transaction in the USA!

In Europe it is capped at 0.3%. So much for market forces in the land of the free!

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-...

There is also a new EU law on the books mandating the provision of instant digital payments across the market. The critical paragraph in the law is that providers are *not allowed* to charge more for instant payments than delayed cleared payments. This will effectively drive the cost of retail instant digital payments to zero.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...

Quote from link:

``` PSUs are very sensitive to the level of charges for substitutable payment methods. The level of charges can therefore steer them towards or away from a given payment method. In national markets where higher transaction-level charges for instant credit transfers in euro have been applied, when compared to charges for other credit transfers in euro, the uptake of instant credit transfers is low. That has prevented the attainment of the critical mass of instant credit transfers in euro that is necessary to realise the full network effects for both PSPs and PSUs. Therefore, all types of charges applied to payers and payees for the execution of instant credit transfers in euro, including pertransaction charges or lump-sum charges, should not exceed such charges applied to the same PSU for corresponding types of other credit transfers in euro. It would be undesirable that PSPs circumvent the aim of that requirement. When identifying corresponding types of credit transfers, it should be possible to use criteria including the payment initiation channel or the payment instrument used to initiate the payment, customer status, and additional features or services. ```